Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The secret of happiness is something to do.

- Burroughs, John

Best Quotes about Happiness

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand